Federcaccia Toscana argues over the “embarrassed” press release from Coldiretti Toscana regarding the establishment of the Hunting Assistance Centers (CAV).
Coldiretti accuses the Tuscany Region of electoral blitz in favor of hunters for legislative proposals that are actually legitimate and due and threatens the opening of hostilities. Federcaccia Toscana: “If Coldiretti, as we are convinced, really wants to solve the damage problems, put all your strength, which is great, into the change project we have shared”. “The Coldiretti Toscana press release is embarrassing and surprising. Coldiretti disputes the provision that establishes the Hunting Assistance Centers (CAV) and which allows hunting associations to organize themselves to carry out procedural service activities towards the public administration and in favor of their associated hunters.
Yet it is, in reality, an act that exceeds a delay of over ten years, which limits itself to introducing for hunting associations the same possibilities offered to agricultural organizations, first by the Tuscan law and then by the national one. Coldiretti has been carrying out these services very well for over ten years on behalf of the Public Administration and in favor of its associated farmers. It is not clear why the same assistance should not be available for hunters, nor why it should not be provided by hunting associations.
Where is the election blitz? Where is the pro-hunter norm? It is embarrassing to even discuss the amendment, also contested by Coldiretti, aimed at specifying that the management committee reimburses the damages within the limits of the budget available. Anyone who has a vague idea of the tasks and responsibilities of administrators knows that this is how it is and should be: the management committees and their members - even the farmers who are part of them therefore - are responsible within the limits of budget availability, they cannot and they should not be held accountable for non-disbursement of funds that the budget does not have. Specifying it, for the protection of administrators and public resources administered, is a duty, free from any and all different implications.
With regard to the prevention and compensation of damages, an issue that has nothing to do with the amendments that are the subject of controversy, we recall, as Coldiretti should remember, the common work of these years and the convergence in the identification of solutions, with special regard to the need a timely review of national regulations is mandatory, to unequivocally clarify the exclusive competence of the Regions in the choices of wildlife management and to obtain the transfer to the territory, by the State, of the due resources.
An indispensable step for the effectiveness of programming and to bring the presence and density of wildlife in the area back to sustainable levels for agricultural activity and, in general, for the environment and biodiversity. We know and farmers know, having together made an important contribution, that in Tuscany laws, regulations and regional plans contain all the elements for the achievement of these results, and we know that the implementation of these choices is conditioned, hindered, often by the all prevented by the constraints of national laws born when the faunal condition was very different from the current one.
It is not a reference to the responsibilities of others, but a reminder of the awareness of a battle of common interest of hunters and farmers and, we believe, of society.
Federcaccia Toscana has recently presented its proposals to the parliamentary candidates of the various camps, inviting them to do their duty as an expression of our territory: proposals fully adhering to the agreements with Coldiretti, consistent with the purposes of regional legislation, attentive to the needs of the territory and production activities and aimed at achieving shared objectives.
If Coldiretti, as we are convinced, really wants to solve the damage problems, put all his strength, which is great, into this project of change. Because the damages must certainly be compensated, but the ambition is to prevent and avoid them. Hunters, if enabled to do so, can contribute a lot ".
25 February 2013
Federcaccia Tuscany